Tag Archive for 'mac'
With mere hours to go until the WWDC 2008 keynote kicks off, it almost seems pointless to speculate on what Steve Jobs might announce as his “one more thing”. But it’s Monday morning and the tubes are clogged with 3G iPhone rumors, so it’s actually a relief to see something else with an Apple logo [...]
It’s a week for multitouch tables, with the latest DIYer to turn their hand to creating a low-cost interactive surface being 17-year-old Bridger Maxwell. His OS X-powered table was built for Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair, and uses the usual array of LEDs, acrylic platter and infra-red camera to recognise multiple points of contact. [...]
Psystar may have shown they can deliver their OS X-running Open Computer into customers’ hands, but now attention turns to whether this pre-built Hackintosh can offer comparable performance and, even more importantly, stability to Apple’s own range. Engadget have been running some preliminary tests [warning: loud autoplay video!] on their unit, and while the benchmarks seem [...]
Apple’s Q2 2008 financial figures are out and, while management are flinging out the usual hyperbole-filled quotes, the stats themselves make for potentially worrying reading. While year-on-year comparisons (i.e. measuring Q2 2008 to Q2 2007) are reasonable, compared to Q1,sales of iPhones were down by over 600,000 while iPod sales have more than halved. [...]





